human condition
Eight-Day Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat
Holy Cross Monastery - New York 1615 Route 9W, West Park, NY, United StatesThe Eight-Day Centering Prayer Intensive Retreat offered from Tuesday, May 17 to Tuesday, May 24, 2022, provides an opportunity to deepen the practice of Centering Prayer in an atmosphere of silence and community support. This retreat follows the Contemplative Outreach guidelines for an Intensive Retreat including six 30-minute Centering Prayer periods daily. The prayer is
12-Step Introductory Workshop on Centering Prayer as 11th-Step Practice – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesCentering Prayer as an 11th Step Practice Introductory Workshop and a presentation on The Human Condition We have discovered that even when we live with great resolve, determination, and effort, we cannot heal ourselves. Yes, there are things we can do, but we came to believe that healing is the work of our higher power.
Body Presence and Contemplative Awareness – BioSpiritual Focusing Day of Presence – via Zoom
Internet - Online , United StatesDiscover a deeper awareness of healing and wisdom accessible to each of us through our bodies. During this day we'll establish BioSpiritual Focusing’s place in Body Awareness Practice and then progressively and experimentally introduce participants to the focusing concepts which will conclude with a demonstration and discussion of Focusing. Participants will be invited to welcome
Waking Up with the Enneagram: A Guide for your Contemplative Journey
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesContemplative Enrichment Day with Rev. Nhien Vuong, J.D., M.Div. The Enneagram is an extraordinary framework for transformational development. A multi-dimensional model of consciousness, the Enneagram equips each of us with a highly precise roadmap for embodying our divine potential. In this introductory Enneagram workshop, you’ll gain insights into how the Enneagram maps our personality-based obstacles
Welcoming Prayer Introductory Workshop
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center 303 Tunxis Road, West Hartford, CT, United StatesAccording to Fr. Thomas Keating, “Welcoming Prayer is the practice that actively lets go of thoughts and feelings that support the false-self system. It embraces painful emotions experienced in the body rather than avoiding them or trying to suppress them.” This workshop introduces participants to the actual method of the Welcoming Prayer and provides an
SAVE the DATE: Ubuntu and Contemplation: How an Indigenous African Philosophy Maps Our Spiritual Path to Global Community via Zoom
Internet - Online , United Stateswith Michael Battle https://michaelbattle.com/about/ Emerging from the ancient cultural traditions of sub-Saharan Africa, the deeply communitarian philosophy known as Ubuntu challenges Western habits of mind in ways that complement and complete the experience of contemplation. In Centering Prayer and other contemplative practices, we find a path that opens us up to oneness – both union
